They have a luminous, transparent quality and express the Rococo spirit but are nevertheless minor works of a major painter.
These have a luminous centre – powered by a supermassive black hole – that is as bright as the entire Milky Way.
The music moves in inexorable waves of wrenching harmonies that often have a luminous glow, as if the opera were a passion play.
The movie's images have a luminous fullness, a decentered dynamism, and a dance-like flow that separate them from mere illustration and raise them to a visual music that matches the movie's bold dramatic construction.
Ronald Ophuis's huge, Leon Golub-style painting of kneeling prisoners in a barn in Srebrenica is impressive and moving, while Michael van den Besselaar's small grisaille paintings lovingly copied from photographs of private airplane interiors have a luminous ethereality.
The best of them have a luminous, atmospheric quality that owes itself to the artist's fluid, free-flowing line and the delicate contrast of light and shadow deriving from the subtle application of multiple layers of charcoal and pastel.
